Daily ration book |
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| Title : | Daily ration book |
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| Creator : | Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission | ||
| Source : | SRG 698/2 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1883-1884 | ||
| Format : | Manuscript | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Ration book giving names of families, including numbers of children, where living, and amount of rations (bread, flour, sugar, tea, rice and meat). 1 July 1883 - 30 September 1884. This item is part of records of the Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission comprising two record books of births, baptisms, marriages,deaths, census records, vaccination lists and this daily ration book. The Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission, on the northern end of the peninsula between Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert, was founded in 1859 by the Aborigines' Friends' Association. This organisation had been formed on 31 August 1858. The first missionary agent was George Taplin who began his duties on 4 April 1859. The mission was taken over by the State Government in 1916. In 1982 the place name was changed from Point McLeay to Raukkan. |
| Related names : | Aborigines' Friends' Association Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission Taplin, George Unaipon, David |
| Coverage year : | c.1883 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | Point Mcleay (Raukkan) |
| Region : | Riverland and Murraylands |
| Further reading : | Guide to archival records held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana relating to Aboriginal people, compiled by David Jury, Adelaide: The Library, 1989 [i.e. 1990]. Jenkin, Graham,Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, Point McLeay, Raukkan Publishers, 1995, 2nd ed. Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission (SRG 698). Records comprising two record books of births, baptisms, marriage and deaths, census records, vaccination lists and daily ration book, spanning 1857-1966, on Microfilm. Taplin, George. The Narrinyeri : an account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines, inhabiting the country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong and the lower part of the River Murray: their manners and customs, also an account of the mission at Point Macleay. 2nd ed. rev. Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son, 1878. |
| Internet links : | Ngarrindjeri people, State Library of South Australia factsheets online |
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